patents dont make people ship software compiled without optimization. Intel did same thing with its compiler to push cpus, Nvidia with physx compiled to use FPU instead of SSE/AVX and so on, its all politics.
of course its politics. Google ships chrome with unoptimized h.264 software decoder causing 1080p60 h.264 YT clips to stutter on 4GHz intel while more cpu intensive vp9 is butter smooth, and same 1080p60 h.264 clips downloaded to disk play at 30% cpu in mplayer.
This also works in reverse, take google full of fresh graduates filtered thru a process of 20 whiteboard interviews and you end up with 150ms audio/input subsystems lag
This is because US fines are laughable. Try Microsoft paying over Billion dollars for IE bundling in EU. The way things are going they are due for another round or billion dollar fines soon.
Do you realize how much more advertisers are willing to pay for targeted campaigns? That real identity G+ policy wasnt to stop trolls or some other bullshit, it was to build better database.